“A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.” PeopleReadingReaderPagesPrejudiceFriendlyLampsLightingGood WritersAdverseSpectaclesMagnifying Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.” TogetherReaderTastePrejudiceIntelligentCriticsBiasedBundles Book:Dinosaurs in the Morning: Forty-One Pieces on Jazz Source: Dinosaurs in the Morning: Forty-One Pieces on Jazz
“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.” IfsTryingWellsHelpingUseAbleNamesSpeakGivenMy OwnPleasureTalentDutyReaderBenefitsPrejudiceHumbleEndeavour Author:Anne Bronte
“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.” MenMayReaderOrdinaryPrejudiceForgivingParadox Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau